Chirevo cheMutungamiri, 2006

Vanodiwa Shamwari dzeThe Ocean Foundation,

Ndichangodzoka kubva kurwendo kuenda kumusangano weSocial Ventures Network muKennebunkport, Maine. Vanhu vanopfuura mazana maviri nemakumi matatu nevashanu vanobva munzvimbo dzakasiyana-siyana - dzebhangi, tekinoroji, dzisiri purofiti, venture capital, masevhisi, uye kutengeserana - vakaungana kuti vataure nezve machengetero evashandi, kuchengetedza pasi, kuita purofiti uye kunakidzwa uchiita. zvose. Senhengo ichangobva kugamuchirwa yeboka, ndakanga ndiripo kuti ndione kuti basa reThe Ocean Foundation rekuona kuti kuenderera mberi kwenguva refu uye kutsigirwa kwevanhu nezviwanikwa munharaunda dzemahombekombe zvingapindirana nemaitiro ebhizinesi “akasvibira” zvirongwa zvebudiriro.

Muna Kurume, takaita rwendo rwekumaodzanyemba kuenda kuBelize kune zuva kune zuva kumusangano wepagore weMarine Funders paAmbergris Caye. Musangano uyu wepagore wevhiki rese unoitiswa neConsultative Group for Biological Diversity uye wakavambwa nasachigaro anovamba TOF, Wolcott Henry uye parizvino anotungamirwa nenhengo yebhodhi reTOF, Angel Braestrup. Iyo CGBD mubatanidzwa unotsigira basa rehwaro mumunda wekuchengetedza zvipenyu zvakasiyana-siyana, uye inoshanda senge networking hub yenhengo dzayo.

Tichifunga mamiriro akaomarara eMesoamerican Reef uye vashanu marine funders1 vakadyara mudunhu iri, CGBD yakasarudza Belize senzvimbo ye2006 yemusangano wayo wepagore wekuunza pamwe chete mari dzemugungwa kubva kurudzi rwese kuti vakurukure kudyidzana kwevanowana mari uye nyaya dzinonyanya kunetsa dziri kukanganisa makungwa edu anokosha. ecosystems. Iyo Ocean Foundation yakapa zvekumashure zvemusangano uyu kwegore rechipiri rakateedzana. Yaisanganisirwa mune izvi zvinyorwa yaive Kubvumbi 2006 chinyorwa cheMai Jones magazini ine mamiriro emakungwa edu uye 500-peji muverengi akagadzirwa neThe Ocean Foundation.

Nevhiki yekukurukura nezvese pasi pezuva rekuchengetedzwa kwemakungwa, mazuva edu aive akazara nemharidzo dzinodzidzisa uye nhaurirano dzine moyo pamusoro pemhinduro nezvinetso isu, senharaunda yerubatsiro rwemugungwa, tinoda kugadzirisa. Co-sachigaro Herbert M. Bedolfe (Marisla Foundation) akavhura musangano nenzira yakanaka. Sechikamu chesumo yemunhu wese, munhu wese aivemo akakumbirwa kuti atsanangure chikonzero nei achimuka mangwanani achienda kubasa. Mhinduro dzaisiyana-siyana kubva kundangariro dzouduku dzinofadza dzokushanyira gungwa kusvika pakuchengetera ramangwana revana vavo nevazukuru. Mumazuva matatu akatevera, takaedza kubata mibvunzo yehutano hwegungwa, ndedzipi nyaya dzinoda rumwe rutsigiro, uye kufambira mberi kupi kuri kuitwa.

Musangano wegore rino wakapa kuvandudzwa pamusoro pezvinhu zvina zvakakosha zvemusangano wegore rapera zvinoti: High Seas Governance, Fisheries/Fish Policy, Coral Reef Conservation, uye Oceans and Climate Change. Yakapera nemishumo mitsva pamusoro pekugona kuita mari yekudyidzana kutsigira basa paInternational Fisheries, iyo Coral Curio uye Aquarium Trade, Marine Mammals, uye Aquaculture. Ehezve, isu takatarisawo paMesoamerican reef uye matambudziko ekuona kuti inoramba ichipa hutano hwekugara kune mhuka, zvirimwa, uye nharaunda dzevanhu dzinotsamira pazviri. Iyo yakazara agenda kubva kumusangano ichave iripo paThe Ocean Foundation webhusaiti.
Ndakave nemukana wekuita kuti boka rive nenguva pamusoro pehuwandu hukuru hwe data itsva uye tsvagiridzo yakabuda pamusoro pekuchinja kwemamiriro ekunze mumakungwa kubva pamusangano wemugungwa waFebruary 2005. Takakwanisawo kuratidza basa rinotsigirwa neTOF muAlaska, uko chando chegungwa uye polar ice caps zviri kunyunguduka, zvichikonzera kukwira kwegungwa uye kurasikirwa kwakanyanya kwekugara. Zviri kuramba zviri pachena kuti vanopa mari yekuchengetedzwa kwemakungwa vanofanirwa kubatana kuti vaone kuti isu tinotsigira nhamburiko dzekugadzirisa kukanganisa kwemamiriro ekunze pane zviwanikwa zvegungwa izvozvi.

Kubatana neCGBD Marine Funders gore rega rega vanokokwa vatauri vevaenzi kubva munharaunda yegungwa vanopa mharidzo uye vanogovana ruzivo rwavo zvisina kurongwa. Vatauri vegore rino vaisanganisira vana vevakapihwa stellar veTOF: Chris Pesenti wePro Peninsula, Chad Nelsen weSurfrider Foundation, David Evers weBiodiversity Research Institute, naJohn Wise weMaine Center for Toxicology uye Environmental Health.

Mumharidzo dzakasiyana, Dr. Wise naDr. Evers vakapa zvavakawana kubva murabhoritari ongororo yemasampuli ewhale akaunganidzwa nemumwezve akapihwa mvumo yeTOF, Ocean Alliance pa "Voyage of the Odyssey." Yakakwira mazinga echromium uye mercury ari kuwanikwa mune whale tissue samples kubva kumakungwa kutenderera pasirese. Basa rakawanda rinosara rekuongorora mamwe masampuli uye kutsvagisa zvingangobva kune zvinosvibisa, kunyanya chromium inogona kunge yakave muchetura wemhepo, uye nekudaro inogona kunge yakaisa dzimwe mhuka dzinofema mweya, kusanganisira vanhu, panjodzi mudunhu rimwe chete. . Uye, isu tinofara kuzivisa kuti mapurojekiti matsva ave kuitika nekuda kwemusangano:

• Kuedza Atlantic cod stocks yemercury uye chromium
• John Wise achange achishanda nePro Peninsula kugadzira mitsara yegungwa turtle stem cell mitsara yekuenzanisa uye kuyedza njiva dzemusango dze chromium nezvimwe zvinosvibisa.
• Surfrider nePro Peninsula vanogona kushandira pamwe muBaja uye vakakurukura nezvekushandisa mamodheru kune mamwe matunhu epasi.
• Mepu yehutano hwemvura uye kusvibiswa kunobata Mesoamerican reef
• David Evers achange achishanda mukuyedza whale shark nehove dzemuReef dzeMesoamerican reef yemercury sechikurudziro chekumisa kuredza kwezvitoro izvi.

Nhamba yeMesoamerican reef inoyambuka miganhu yenyika ina, zvichiita kuti kuomerwa kwenzvimbo dzakachengetedzwa mugungwa kunetse kune veBelizeans vanoramba vachirwisa matsotsi kubva kuGuatemala, Honduras neMexico. Zvakadaro, negumi neshanu muzana chete mhenyu yekorari yekuvhara yasara mukati meMesoamerican reef, kuchengetedza uye kudzoreredza kuedza kwakakosha. Kutyisidzirwa kwezvirongwa zvereef zvinosanganisira: mvura inodziya inochenesa makorari; kuwedzera kushanya kwemugungwa (kunyanya zvikepe zvekufamba uye kuvandudzwa kwemahotera); kuvhima reef shark kwakakosha kune reef ecosystem, uye kusimudzira gasi remafuta, uye kutadza kutonga kwemarara, kunyanya tsvina.

Chimwe chezvikonzero zvakaita kuti Belize isarudzwe pamusangano wedu zviwanikwa zvayo zvegungwa uye kushanda nesimba kwenguva refu kuvadzivirira. Kuda kwezvematongerwo enyika kwekudzivirira kwave kwakasimba ipapo nekuti hupfumi hweBelize hwanga huchitsamira paecotourism, kunyanya kune avo vanouya kuzonakidzwa nematombo anoumba chikamu che700-mamaira Mesoamerican Reef turakiti. Asi, Belize nezviwanikwa zvayo zvakatarisana nekuchinja sezvo Belize inovandudza zviwanikwa zvesimba (kuve mutengesi wemafuta kunze kwenyika kutanga kwegore rino) uye bhizinesi rekurima rinoderedza kutsamira kwehupfumi pane ecotourism. Kunyange kusiyanisa kwehupfumi kwakakosha, zvakakoshawo kuchengetedza zviwanikwa zvinokwezva vashanyi izvo zvinopisa chikamu chichiri chikuru chehupfumi, kunyanya munzvimbo dzemahombekombe. Saka, takanzwa kubva kuvanhu vakati wandei vane basa rehupenyu rakazvipira kuchengetedza zviwanikwa zvemugungwa muBelize uye pamwe neMesoamerican Reef.

Pazuva rekupedzisira, yaingova vatsigiri vemari chete, uye takaswera tichiteerera vatinoshanda navo vachikurudzira mikana yekubatana mukutsigira zvirongwa zvakanaka zvekuchengetedza mugungwa.
Muna Ndira, TOF yakaitisa musangano weboka rinoshanda recoral reef pamusoro pezvakakonzerwa nekutengesa kwecoral curio uye aquarium trade, uko kuri kutengeswa kwehove mhenyu nezvidimbu zvecurio (semuenzaniso zvishongo zvekorari, mateko emugungwa, mabhiza egungwa akafa uye starfish). Pfupiso yemusangano uyu yakapihwa naDr. Barbara Best veUSAID avo vakasimbisa kuti tsvakiridzo ichangotanga pamusoro pezvinokonzeresa kutengeserana kwecurio uye pane kushaikwa kwekurudziro yemutemo maererano nemakorari. Mukubatana nevamwe vanopa mari, The Ocean Foundation iri kuwedzera tsvagiridzo pamusoro pemabatiro ekutengeserana kwecoral curio pamatombo nenharaunda dzinotsamira pavari.

Ini naHerbert Bedolfe takazivisa boka racho nezvebasa riri kuitwa kugadzirisa zvinhu zvisingaonekwi zvinotyisidzira mhuka dzomugungwa. Semuenzaniso, mabasa evanhu ari kukonzera kusagadzikana kwemazwi, izvo zvinozokonzera, kukuvadza uye kunyange kufa kune whale nedzimwe mhuka dzomugungwa.

Angel Braestrup akaunza boka racho kuti rikurumidze pane zvichangobva kuitika mubasa rekugadzirisa kukanganisa kwemvura yegungwa pamvura yemahombekombe uye nharaunda dzemahombekombe. Kuwedzera kudiwa kwezvokudya zvemugungwa uye kudzikira kwezvipfuyo zvemusango kwakaita kuti kurima kwemumvura kuonekwe seyamuro inobvira yezvipfuyo zvemusango uye ingangoita sosi yeprotein yenyika dzichiri kusimukira. Vatsigiri vakati wandei vari kushanda kuti vatsigire kushanda pamwe kwekusimudzira miitiro yezvakatipoteredza kune chero nzvimbo yekurima yemvura, kushanda kudzikamisa kurima kwehove dzinodya nyama (hove dzinorimwa dzichidya hove dzemusango hazvideredze kudzvanywa pamatanda emusango),uye neimwe nzira kuita kuti aquaculture irarame zvinoenderana nevimbiso yayo senzvimbo inogoneka yemapuroteni.

Kubva pakuvambwa kwayo makore anopfuura 10 apfuura, Marines Working Group yakasimbisa kuvaka network yevashandisi vekuchengetedza marine vanogovana mazano, ruzivo, uye zvichida zvakanyanya kukosha, rinoshandisa simba rekubatana kwemubatsiri kutsigira mushandirapamwe kubatana, kutaurirana, uye kubatana. Nekufamba kwenguva, kwave nekuwanda kwekudyidzana kwakarongeka uye kusina kurongeka kwevapa mari kutsigira nzvimbo dzakati dzekuchengetedzwa kwemakungwa, kazhinji mukupindura kune zvemutemo kana zvekutonga.

Zviri nyore kuteerera mashoko ose akaipa pamisangano iyi uye woshamisika kuti chii chasara kuita. Huku Kadiki inoita kunge ine poindi. Panguva imwecheteyo, vanopa mari nevaratidziri vese vanotenda kuti pane zvakawanda zvinogona kuitwa. Kukura kwehwaro hwesainzi hwekutenda kuti nharaunda dzine hutano dzinopindura uye kuchinjika zvirinani kune zvese zvenguva pfupi (semu tsunami kana mwaka wemadutu wa2005) uye zvenguva refu (El Niño, shanduko yemamiriro ekunze) zvakabatsira kutarisa maitiro edu. Izvi zvinogona kusanganisira kuedza kuchengetedza zviwanikwa zvemugungwa munharaunda, kumisa hwaro hwenzvimbo yekuona hutano hwenharaunda yemahombekombe — panyika nemumvura, nezvinangwa zvemitemo zvakakura (semuenzaniso kurambidza kana kudzikisira maitiro ekuredza anoparadza uye kugadzirisa kunobva simbi inorema inowanikwa mumawhale. nemamwe marudzi). Kunoperekedza mazano aya ndiko kudiwa kuri kuenderera mberi kwezvirongwa zvekukurukurirana uye zvedzidzo pamatanho ese uye kuona uye kupa mari yekutsvaga kubatsira mukugadzira zvinangwa izvi.

Takabva kuBelize neruzivo rwakawedzerwa rwematambudziko uye nekutenda kwemikana iri mberi.

Nezvemakungwa,
Mark J. Spalding, Mutungamiri